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Exercise 6
Exercise 6
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1) What is the Dunham and Embry and Klovan texture classification term for the carbonate rock in the image?
Floatstone/Wackestone
Rudstone/Packstone
Rudstone/Grainstone
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2) What are the coated grains in the image?
Oncoids
Aggregate grains
Pisoids
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3) What skeletal fragments are at the nuclei of the coated grains?
Bivalves
Brachiopods
Gastropods
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4) What is the Dunham texture classification term for the carbonate rock in the image?
Packstone
Boundstone
Grainstone
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5) What are the grains in the image?
Oncoids
Aggregate grains
Pisoids
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Wrong!
6) what is the skeletal grain on the centre left of the image?
Foraminifer
Gastropod
Coral
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7) What is the Dunham classification term for the carbonate rock in the image?
Grainstone
Packstone
Rudstone
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8) How many types of cements are visible in the image?
Two
One
Zero
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9) What is the Dunham classification term for the carbonate rock in the image in crossed polarisers?
Floatstone
Wackestone
Grainstone
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10) What type of cement binds the grains?
Burial drusy sparite
Vadose meniscus cement
Blocky sparite
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Exercise 6
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